We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a governmental reform introducing mandatory early childcare in Germany that generated large temporal and spatial variation in childcare coverage at the county-level. Using high-quality...

Indian education system which has a long and interesting history has undergone a paradigm shift from knowledge dissemination to knowledge creation. Many structural reforms have been introduced from time to time in Indian education system and introduction of semester system in schools and higher...

In recent decades, we have seen an increase in both the complexity of financial markets and the expectation of individual responsibility with financial decision-making. Policies supporting financial literacy education are promoted as one method toward decreasing reliance on social safety nets....

It is often observed that the SHGs formed under Government programmes like SGSY are short-lived. Either they dissociate after even before reaching the funding stage or later at entreprise develoment stage. This paper presents a new approach towards making SHGs stable and sustainable using the...

Micro credit/finance is an attempt to break the vicious circle of poverty by providing the poor an investible sum. But the impact of micro credit/finance programmes often comes out to be non-significant following which the micro credit injection is considered to have failed. This paper adopts an...

The unconstitutional conditions doctrine holds that government may not condition benefits on the surrender of individual constitutional rights. But since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1971 decision, Wyman v. James, courts have upheld increasingly aggressive, intrusive, and investigative mandatory...

The unconstitutional conditions doctrine holds that government may not condition benefits on the surrender of individual constitutional rights. But since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1971 decision, Wyman v. James, courts have upheld increasingly aggressive, intrusive, and investigative mandatory...

The paper studies the multidimensional aspects of poverty and living conditions in Ghana. The aim is to fill the vacuum that has been left by traditional uni-dimensional measures of deprivation based on poverty lines, exclusively estimated on the basis of monetary variables such as income or...

When do we know that the rule of law has failed or been corrupted? Who can we point to as corrupting legal order or the rule of law when most of the parties appear to be one-shotters? One shot players lack the ability to quickly master and more importantly conquer sophisticated legal labyrinths...

Canadian housing cooperatives are a tool for building an inclusive society, bringing together people diverse in income, race, age, and ability/disability. This six-year case study of an Ottawa, Ontario, Canada housing co-op found that co-op housing provided benefits for its members: reducing the...